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Authors
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T.F.
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Page
created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
18.10.2005
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23rd London Regiment
[7th Surrey Rifle Volunteers]
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1859-1961 |
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United
Kingdom
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Note:
This
is a battalion history of the part-time reserves, which are normally
liable for full-time active service only in an emergency. See the
main regimental page(s) as linked below for more information.
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1859.11.30 |
7th Surrey
Rifle Volunteer Corps
raised as a single coy at Southwark |
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1860 |
five
more coys raised (HQ at Southwark) |
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1861.03.09 |
unattached
24th Surrey RVC formed at Southwark from members of the
Temperance League |
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1862 |
24th
Surrey RVC disbanded |
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1880.03 |
absorbed
26th Surrey RVC at Clapham from 1st Admin
Bn Surrey Vols; now ten coys with HQ at Southwark (six coys at Southwark
and four coys at Clapham) |
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1881.07.01 |
volunteer battalion
of The East Surrey Regiment |
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1887.12.01 |
4th Volunteer
Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment |
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1900 |
cyclist
coy formed at Southwark |
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1902 |
HQ
moved to St. John's Hill, Clapham Junction |
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1908.04.01 |
23rd (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment
HQ and A-H Coys at St. John's
Hill |
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1915.03 |
1/23rd
(County of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment
renumbered on formation of 2/23rd
Battalion |
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1916.07.07 |
transferred
to the corps of The
East Surrey Regiment |
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1920.02.07 |
23rd (County
of London) Battalion, The
London Regiment
reconstituted in T.A. with HQ at St. John's Hill, Clapham Junction |
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1922 |
23rd London
Regiment |
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1927.10 |
23rd London
Regiment, The East Surrey Regiment |
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1937.08.10 |
7th (23rd London)
Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment |
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1938.11.01 |
42nd (7th (23rd
London) Bn, The East Surrey Regiment) Battalion, Royal
Tank Corps |
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1939.04 |
42nd (7th (23rd
London) Bn, The East Surrey Regiment) Battalion, Royal
Tank Regiment
formed duplicate 48th
Royal Tank Regiment |
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1939? |
42nd (7th (23rd
London) Bn, The East Surrey Regiment) Royal
Tank Regiment |
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1947.04.01 |
reconstituted
in T.A. with HQ at St. Johns Hill? |
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1956.09.01 |
23rd London
Regiment, The East Surrey Regiment |
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1961.05.01 |
amalgamated
with 6th Battalion,
The
East Surrey Regiment, to form
4th Battalion, The
Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment |
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South Africa
1900-02
The Great War (3 battalions):
Festubert 1915,
Loos, Somme 1916 '18,
Flers-Courcelette, Le Transloy, Messines 1917, Cambrai 1917,
St. Quentin, Ancre 1918, Albert 1918, Bapaume 1918, Ypres 1918,
Courtrai, France and Flanders 1915-18,
Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1916-17,
Gaza, Nebi
Samwil, Jerusalem, Jericho, Jordan, Palestine 1917-18
The Second World War:
Honorary Distinction: Badge of the Royal
Tank Regiment with year-dates "1941-45" and
three scrolls: "N-W
Europe", "N
Africa", and "Italy"
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Record of Colours: |
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
green (1859-1881),
scarlet (1881- ); facings: scarlet (1859-1881), white (1881-
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1889.01.16 |
Sydney James (Stern), 1st Baron Wandsworth,
TD |
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1912.02.10 |
Hon. Col. B.T.L. Thomson, VD |
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1928.04.18 |
Maj. Hon. John Jacob (Astor), 1st Baron
Astor of Hever, CMG, MP [also 519
(Kent and Sussex) Coast Regt, RA] |
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1949 |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental Journal: |
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Full Histories: |
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Shaw, R.J. Herbert. The 23rd London
Regiment, 1798-1919. London : Times Pub. Co., 1936. |
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Short Histories: |
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Larking, Albert. History of the 4th
V.B. East Surrey Regiment, including the Newington Surry Volunteers,
Southwark and Lambeth Rifle Corps, 7th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps,
26th Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps, now the 23rd Battn. The London
Regiment. London : Gale & Polden, 1912. |
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Larking, Albert. History of the 23rd
London regiment ... formerly 4th V.B. East Surrey Regiment, the 7th
and 26th Surrey Volunteer Corps, Southwark and Lambeth rifle Corps,
successors of the Newington Surry Volunteers. [Clapham Junction
: printed by Rangercroft], 1915. |
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War Histories: |
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42nd Royal Tank Regiment, 1938-1944.
Clapham Junction : [s.n.], 1951. |
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Gudgin, Peter. With Churchills to
war : 48th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment at war, 1939-45.
Thrupp, Stroud : Sutton Pub., 1996. ISBN: 0750912391 |
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